Tanner at 9 Months

Tanner turned 9 Months old on December 25th.  Tanner always has a big smile on his face and we love that his happy personality is part of our family.  Here are 9 things about Tanner at 9 months old. 

1.  Tanner definitely isn't breaking any records for his size.  In fact those were the exact words that came from the mouth of his doctor when I took him in for his 9 month appointment.  Tanner weighs 16.5lbs. and is is in the 10th percentile for weight.  Tanner is 27" long and is in the 12th percentile, and his head size grew to be in the 60th percentile. 

2.  Tanner loves food.  Lately I've been feeding him strange Gerber baby food concoctions such as: chicken and apples, turkey and rice, sweet potatoes and corn, sweet potatoes and peaches, etc.  Tanner loves every one of these foods.  He gobbles it all up at each meal time. 

3.  This past month Tanner learned how to army crawl across the floor.  He can get up on his hands and knees in the crawling position, but he prefers to scoot across the floor rather than crawl.  By the end of the day he has carpet burns on his knees, shins, and forearms, but that doesn't seem to stop him. 

4.  This past month Tanner got the flu for the fist time.  It was miserable for everyone.  I swear I've never been thrown-up on so many times.  The only thing he would keep down was about 1-2 oz. of his bottle and I could only feed it to him every 2-3 hours.  After about 48 hours of this, Tanner was finally able to keep down the BRAT diet, and after about a week we were back to his regular routine. 

5.  Tanner loves Mason.  He'll watch Mason all day long and gets the biggest laughs out of the little things Mason does, like pushing around the toy walker.  Tanner loves playing with Mason any chance he gets. 

6.  Tanner has blond, crazy, hair and hair and what looks like will be blue eyes.  When Tanner was born he had a head full of dark hair.  I can't believe how blond it's gotten in just the short 9 months he's been here.  He also desperately needs a haircut, but everyone keeps telling me not to cut it. 

7.  Tanner looks so cute all cuddled up in his winter gear.

8.  Tanner still drinks 3 6/oz. bottles per day. 

9.  Tanner is about 50/50 with sleeping through the night.  He'll go about 2 days sleeping through the night then 2 days without sleeping through the night.  Tanner loves to join Casey and I in our bed, and usually falls right to sleep when I bring him in. 

Love your guts little Tanny Tot!!!